The Sarah Silverman Program: Doodie
By fred | October 25, 2007
(S02E04) I think there’s one thing that can be said for sure about this little show : when you tune in each week, you don’t really know what to expect; Or, you really don’t know what to expect. The only thing you can be sure of, is that it’ll be funny. You will laugh out loud.
Unless you don’t like her humor, and then you probably wouldn’t be watching, so it’s fair to say you knew you were in for some good time. But that’s pretty much it, because it could really go anywhere.
And I think this is even more true with this second season.
What I mean is that, although I didn’t really went back to check, I feel that during the first season there was, I don’t want to use the word “formula”, but a general structure to the stories that took place each time and how they went down.
Being so very self-centered as she is, Sarah would take something, or even nothing, as a personal offense or issue she had to deal with. It would always grew out of proportion and eventually blow up in her face, as she was never in it for anything but her very own little personal issue, absolutely irrelevant to anyone else or in fact not even real.
Granted, this is pretty much what happened during the last episode, when she got denied access to tennis court because, obviously, she was Jew. It grew completely out of proportion as everyone ended up watching her on TV thinking she was leader of yet another movement in order to do plenty of things she didn’t care whatsoever, all she cared was her access to tennis court.
But even then, it wasn’t just the same, as it turned out in the end, and God I loved it, she was indeed refused access because she was Jew! But it could have been worst. (She could have been Black!)
This episode on the other hand, like others this season, did not follow that path. Oh sure, Sarah is still the same self-centered childish sexy bitch she used to be, but she doesn’t always act it out that same way, and the episode doesn’t always rely on that same structure.
I really like this change, because otherwise it could have been a bit boring after a while.
But this episode was absolutely hilarious once again, and another thing I really liked is that, in the end, there was no happy ending nor conclusion to the story. Despite her sister coming back to rescue her, or help her, at the last minute, they did not win. And because they did not, those perverts will keep the mother’s gravestone and bones.
It went from their loss of the show, to Sarah in bed as every ending, no resolution or conclusion to the actual main story of the episode. And because it’s not a “regular” show like any other like say, Journeyman, but because it is The Sarah Silverman Program, it was pretty damn funny.
What else to talk about :
- New opening credits each time, and I started to laugh with that one, which I really loved : “This is my sister Laura and a german Nazi.”
- “I love this show so much I just want to, smash it!” Excellent, especially the way she said it. And yeah, the show is pretty… different. Not sure I would call it “the best show since, no other show” but hey, what do I know.
- I loved how she looked in TV Guide to see if, or when, she was able to visit her late mother.
- To her literally gay friend : “If someone tries to light you on fire or chop off your penis of something, they go to jail, instead of like, getting a trophy!”
- Boob bones! Ah those silly teenagers…
- Of course, Sarah being Sarah, when she learned about what happened to her mother’s grave, she didn’t really feel sad or anything. No she just wondered how and why one would want to make love with a skeleton! Which ended up to her realizing that she didn’t understood those kids today, and she felt old, and yes it was all about her again.
Not really that surprising really, especially after you’ve seen how she acted as a kid herself, the day her mother died! Pretty hilarious shit, I mean doodie.
- I loved how what sounded like just another silly way to get into the show ended up being actually the way the mayor talks!
- “Cookie party, cookie party, cookie party!!” (but you really gotta heard that one sung the way it was in the show, or else it’s just not as funny)
“
- We’d like to dedicate our cookie to our…
- Doodie!! — There weren’t any good pictures of mom!
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- Sarah isn’t childish. In fact, it’s her sister who is. “Yeah you’re 12! Think about it, when you were little you wanted to be a nurse, and now you are one!”
- How could you not love Valley village idiot : “Are some people too stupid to live?” But really, isn’t it time someone ask the real questions, like “Don’t you think we should increase the environment?” Really?
- “That’s so crazy! I dig up some bones, and it turned out to be your mother’s, and now we’re competing against each others on cookie party! It’s just like an episode of Lost!” No comment.
- It was a while, but along with some cartoon moment we got a new song from our Sarah, feature her sister this time. It was nice, funny, short, everything to be a hit. Especially considering the topic, doodie, already the topic of her other smash hit….
- “Yes, and it’s an enormous duty. And I know that enormous duties can really stink.”
I laughed and laughed some more, and I can’t wait to see where the next episode will send us…
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